Exhibition Opening: Belgrade Energy Spots

04/05/2016

The exhibition Belgrade Energy Spots will open this Thursday, 5 May 2016, at 7 pm in the Cultural Centrer of Belgrade, Knez Mihailova 6. The exhibitions is a part of the Belgrade International Week of Architecture.
 

The exhibition will present the vision of Belgrade in the near future. It will investigate the energy potential of certain city locations in the context of constant change, searching for the creative solutions within inevitable limitations, possibility of regeneration (re-use, re-energize) with the purpose to achieve better quality of life, rational use of space, energy saving, but also to achieve ’’the pleasure of architecture’’ (Bernard Tschumi). THE


URBAN YOGA by Ana Humljan (Slovenia)
The Urban Yoga consists of photo series, a video and a theoretical research presented in a photo book. The Urban Yoga photos are metaphors for the way our bodies identify and respond to the space around us; while moving through a space we subconsciously measure and mimic the space with all of our senses at once. The Urban Yoga photo series are collaborations with local photographers. The Urban Yoga Beograd is made by Dušan Djordjević.

BARTLEBY IN BELGRADE by Miloš Kosec (Slovenia)
The exhibition “Bartleby in Belgrade” tries to relativize notions of ruins and decaying spaces within the city. Conventional imagery of war ruins and postindustrial voids are joined by entrepreneurial “developments of potentials” and unoccupied new buildings. “Bartleby in Belgrade” explores the possibility of architectural statement “I would prefer not to” as a technique of resistance – eliminating past and future potentials and thus making possible inhabiting the now.

IN-BETWEEN SPACES by S.O.B.A. Studio (Serbia)
Following the remarks made by the philosopher Georg Simmel that the deepest problem of modern life is the individual’s struggle to defend its own autonomy in defiace to irresistible social forces which dismember the consistency of our inner worlds; in-between space presents a chance to incorporate the given architectural spacial-programmatic framework through a system of indications into the person’s inner world (of imagination), thereby upgrading and changing it in return. The possibility of architecture to offer cracks or baits towards one’s own experiences, desires and memories, enables the expansion of the real by the imaginary world, the objective by subjective one. The projects shown are based upon the intention to offer these baits inside architectural spacial and programmatic frameworks which will occupy intimate reactions that mobilize our creative capacities, and through which a dialogue with particular environmental terms is made possible.

Future Architecture is the first pan-European platform for architecture museums, festivals and producers, bringing ideas on the future of cities and architecture closer to the wider public.

Our goals:

- Think Future. We highlight the emerging generation of talents in various disciplines and explore and share their ideas about the future of cities and architecture.
- Exchange. 14 organisers from 13 countries create a pan-European programme, visit emerging creators and present their ideas at exhibitions, conferences, lectures and workshops, in books and on the web.
- Raise awareness. The platform makes complex issues of architecture comprehensible to everyone, and promotes a more sustainable living environment.
- Build commitment. A Future Architecture European Quality label recognizes organisers who work with aspiring emerging talents and show their commitment to the platform objectives.

The Future Architecture platform introduces and celebrates innovation, experimentation and the ideas of a generation that will design the architecture and build Europe’s cities in the years to come. It promotes European innovation, architecture, culture, knowledge and social capital through a single common platform. 

Coordinating entity: 

Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana (SI);

Members:
Oris House ofArchitecture, Zagreb (HR)
Museum of Architecture in Wrocław (PL)
Belgrade InternationalArchitecture Week (SR)
National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (IT)
House of Architecture,Graz (AT)
Copenhagen Architecture Festival (DK)
Tirana Architecture Week (AL)
DesignBiotop, Ljubljana (SI)
Lisbon Architecture Triennale (PT)
Ruby Press, Berlin (DE);

Associate members:
Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (CH)
Prishtina Architecture Week (RKS)
CANactions, Kiev (UA)

futurearchitectureplatform.org

The European Commission support for the production of this publication does not constitute an endorsement of the contents which reflects the views only of the authors, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.